Some Stories are Better than Others: Doing What Works in Brief Therapy and Managed Care

by Michael F. Hoyt

Overview

There are stories that we use to explain what happened to us twenty years ago or last wee, those we use to explain why the world works the way it does, and those that we sue to "fix" the world when it doesn't work the way other stories said it should. And as the author points out in this collection of essays and interviews, some of these stories are better than others. This book is an investigation into which might be the better stories and how they can help clients reach their goals in therapy. This book contains fifteen essays and interviews written or co-written by Michael Hoyt. The collection represents Dr. Hoyt's recent thinking on helping clients with the brief, future-orientated therapeutic approaches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134943258
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/21/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Michael F. Hoyt

Table of Contents

1: It's Not My Therapy—It's the Client's Therapy; 2: A Golfer's Guide to Brief Therapy (With Footnotes for Baseball Fans); 3: Some Stories Are Better Than Others; 4: Likely Future Trends and Attendant Ethical Concerns Regarding Managed Mental Health Care; 5: Dilemmas of Postmodern Practice Under Managed Care and Some Pragmatics for Increasing the Likelihood of Treatment Authorization; 6: Interview I: Brief Therapy and Managed Care; 7: Interview II: Autologue: Reflections on Brief Therapy, Social Constructionism, and Managed Care; 8: Solution-Focused Couple Therapy: Helping Clients Construct Self-Fulfilling Realities; 9: Solution-ku; 10: A Single-Session Therapy Retold: Evolving and Restoried Understandings; 11: What Can We Learn From Milton Erickson's Therapeutic Failures?; 12: Unmuddying the Waters: A “Common Ground” Conference; 13: The Joy of Narrative: An Exercise for Learning From Our Internalized Clients; 14: Stage-Appropriate Change-Oriented Brief Therapy Strategies; 15: The Last Session in Brief Therapy: Why and How to Say “When”

What People are Saying About This

Nicholas A. Cummings

Profound! Hoyt's grasp and knowledge of the material is astounding. This carefully selected collection of essays, interviews, and articles engages the reader at the forefront of today's issues. I would like to see this book on the shelf of every mental health practitioner and in the library of every university and professional school that offers an APA-approved doctoral clinical training program. (Nicholas A. Cummings, PhD, President, Foundation for Behavioral Health)

Editorial Reviews

In 15 essays and interviews, Hoyt (psychology, U. of California-San Francisco) uses the theoretical lens of narrative construction to discuss various issues regarding constructive therapies, brief treatment, and some of the promises and problems of managed care. Fundamentally he argues that how clients make stories of their experience does much to determine what they see and what they do not. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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